Adolphe Guillaumat

Adolphe Guillaumat (4 January 1863-18 May 1940) was a French Army general during World War I and Minister of War of France from 23 June to 19 July 1926.

Biography
Adolphe Guillaumat was born in Bourgneuf, France in 1863, and he graduated first in his class from Saint-Cyr Military Academy in 1884. His early French Army career was spent in the colonies, including Algeria, Tunisia, Vietnam, and China, and he became a military professor in 1903. In October 1913, he became a Brigadier-General, and, in 1916, he replaced Robert Nivelle as commander of the Second Army when Nivelle was made the new commander-in-chief of the French Army during World War I. In December 1917, he was given command of the Allied Army of the Orient in Salonika, Greece, and he repaired France's relations with its regional allies and laid the plans used by his successor, Louis Franchet d'Esperey. He was recalled to Paris on 17 June 1918 along with Franchet d'Esperey, and he became Military Governor of Paris, a member of the Supreme War Council, and commander of the Fifth Army during the Ardennes offensive at the war's end. After the war, he commanded the Allied occupation forces in Rhineland, and he served as Minister of War for a month in 1926. He died in 1940.